An Inventory of My Life: PowerPaola on ‘Virus Tropical’ and Turning a Graphic Novel into a Film
[Lee en español aquí] PowerPaola is a Quito-born-Cali-raised artist, cartoonist, and writer. Her hit autobiographical graphic novel, Virus Tropical (2011),... Read Article
María Fernanda Ampuero Targets Family Violence in ‘Cockfight’
Award-winning author María Fernanda Ampuero, leader of a new wave of Ecuadorian writers according to The New York Times en... Read Article
Five Latin American Books to Read for Women in Translation Month
The month of August is Women in Translation Month: an initiative created in 2014 by book blogger Meytal Radzinski to... Read Article
REVIEW Virus Tropical
Virus Tropical (2018, dir. Santiago Caicedo) is a beautifully-animated coming-of-age film based on Ecuadorian-Colombian artist Power Paola’s 2011 autobiographical graphic... Read Article
REVIEW Various Artists – Place: Ecuador
Place: Ecuador is earthy, alien, and reveals the current dystopia. The 19-track compilation is made up of music from Ecuadorian... Read Article
REVIEW Cuñao – Rayuela
Cuñao’s Latin-folk sound is as unique as they are, a band that came together for a birthday celebration in 2014... Read Article
Indigenous Race Into Ecuador’s Amazon to Escape Coronavirus
This story originally appeared in aljazeera.com and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration... Read Article
The Illustrators Fired Up by 2019’s Protest Movements
2019 has seen right-wing governments (re)gain power all over the world. It’s also been a year of protest and uprising... Read Article
Reworked Version of Nicola Cruz’s ‘Siku’ Announced
Far-flung producers have converged on Nicola Cruz‘s last album Siku to rework its tracks into glorious new shapes, with a... Read Article